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South African music
Wits University will be paying tribute to the life and career of composer Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph. As a regular festival-goer, the forever winging festival veteran is as much a part of the goings on as the boisterous drunken louts.
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Real-Life Night at the Museum
Spending a night in the museum isn't just the stuff of movies these days. The Guggenheim is allowing one couple per night to sleep...
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Basquiat painting sells for $14M at NYC auction
The drummer for Metallica has snapped up a Jean Michel-Basquiat painting for $14 million at an auction in New York City. Christie's says the price Lars Ulrich bid for "Untitled (Boxer)" exceeded the pre-auction estimate of more than $12 million. The 1982 painting shows a black heavyweight fighter with his arms thrust in the air against a white graffiti-filled background.
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Try art for lunch at UMMA
BANGOR, Maine — Art lovers and those who want to learn more about what the University of Maine Museum of Art has to offer need only to remember this: Art at Noon, the first Monday of each month when museum staff conduct tours of current exhibits and talk about the art.
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Bernini or bust
Fifty works of "the utmost rarity" will be displayed at the National Gallery of Canada in its exhibition "Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture," the gallery says.
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Sameera Inaugurates New Salon [Gallery]
Psalm23- the state of the art lounge salon at Kemps Corner was launched by the dusky beauty of Bollywood, Sameera Reddy along with Ity Aggarwal.
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Germany to pursue looted art claim against Ukraine
Germany intends to push for the return of 87 pieces of looted art from Ukraine. Germany's foreign ministry said it would seek the return of the art works to a museum in Germany's western city of Aachen.
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Anderson wins Lions’ poster contest
Bronwyn Anderson, a seventh grade student at Watertown-Mayer Middle School, has taken the first step to becoming an internationally recognized artist by winning a local competition sponsored by the Mayer-Watertown DandyLions Club.
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SoHo Mural Needs Restoration (And Maybe A Cat Upgrade)
"Using only oil paint, the artist Richard J. Haas created an entire cast-iron facade in SoHo more than 30 years ago.
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Back to the basics
Tornadoes might be an ideal subject for an impatient artist. I get impatient and work really quickly, said artist Kate Keely, who will display pieces from her abstract Tornado Series at the Washington County Arts Councils dual artist exhibition, Line and Color.
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Exhibits
Glassware and porcelain; Mezzotints and paintings; Holiday wreaths; Two painters; Mlange; Art in the hallway; Ceramics and paintings; Nature photography; Solo exhibition; Affinity for the Infinitesimal; Photography; Western personae; Exhibit of art by seniors; One Hundred Stories
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Local News
The city is putting its heart where its art is for an upcoming gala at the Shaw Conference Centre Nov. 14. The winners have been chosen from more than 870 entries in the Heart 2 Art contest, created by youth, for youth to raise awareness of homelessness issues in Edmonton.
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16 CMS students set for China trip
Sixteen students from Garinger, North Mecklenburg and Providence high schools will head for China later this month to test their language skills, explore stereotypes and bring back photos and videos to share with the city. The Light Factory, a photography museum in uptown Charlotte, is hosting the exchange, which sends the students from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools to China for two weeks and ...
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Meeting tonight to save gallery
As a member of the gallery, I received a letter in the mail signed by the board president asking me to please come to a [...]
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Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
What is the Corcoran Gallery of Art all about these days? Is it about researching and building its well-known collection of 19th-century American art? Is it about exploring how its modern and contemporary collections relate to its American collection?
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Oldham life through a lens
A PIONEERING photography exhibition which gives an insight into community life has opened at Gallery Oldham. Oldham Council, together with the Arts Council, commissioned photographic artists Liz Lock and Mishka Henner to work on the project which linked into several aspects of regeneration.
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Museum exhibit focused on photography
“Relics and Ruins” is the title chosen by Aberdeen artist Paula Guhin for her new exhibition at the Dacotah Prairie Museum....
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CORONATION Street favourite Anne Kirkbride is having another brush with fame - as an artist. The actress, known to millions as Deirdre Barlow, has put her artworks on display for the first time at a gallery in Didsbury.
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Photography in the Thick of Things
Interview with Debbie Egan-Chin, award winner at the first Annual Epoch Times International Photography Competition.
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A Bacon Goes Unsold As Art Market Shows Signs Of Life
"In a bumpy sale of contemporary art at Christie's on Wednesday, some paintings, drawings and sculptures were eagerly sought, but there were also big disappointments as the art market struggled to adjust to today's financial climate.
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Madonna opens art exhibit Friday
Madonna University opens Friday "A New Earth," an all-media art exhibition inspired by Eckhart Tolle's spiritual book, which was a recent webcast series on Oprah.com.
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Exhibition of Cartoons For Diversity and Against Discrimination
A collective exhibition of Cartoons on the theme ‘For Diversity and Against Discrimination’ (FDAD) is currently on display at The Atrium, St James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Valletta. Twenty-two original works submitted by promising young and established Maltese cartoonists participated in a competition held as part of the campaign “For Diversity Against Discrimination”, initiated by [...]
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SF Holocaust Memorial defaced
A sculpture conservator is being brought in to restore the Holocaust Memorial in San Francisco's Lincoln Park after swastikas were drawn on the bronze sculpture using a black ink marker.
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Japanese sculptor reimagines 'Madama Butterfly'
To artist Jun Kaneko, designing the sets and costumes for "Madama Butterfly" took more than four decades. He doesn't mean it literally — actual creation, from the time Opera Omaha contacted him with a design commission until the work appeared onstage in spring 2006, was about three years. But Kaneko, an internationally known sculptor, argues that all of his work, whether it is ceramics, drawing ...
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Around the bubbler: What's on tap the week of Nov. 13
Back to school The German Art Students, Madison's power pop darlings, have been going steady with the same crew for over 10 years. They're celebrating that longevity (and the release of a new 7-inch vinyl called "79 AD") this Saturday, Nov. 15 at The Frequency, 121 W. Main St. The show starts at 6 p.m. sharp with opening act the Teenage Imposters, a rockin' pop band out of Chicago that counts ...
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